Mental Health Week in Canada is May 4 – 10, an annual event that raises awareness of the issue in the country. As an organization with frontline employees, Avenue Living is focused on delivering services to its team to help with their mental health.
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“This isn’t the first economic challenge that we’ve been through,” said Shannon. “Avenue Living has continued to grow, operate and be successful through eight years of recessionary periods – out of fourteen that we’ve been operating. We’ve been successful in challenging times.”
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A new, 5,400-square-foot home care centre opens at Wetaskiwin Mall near Edmonton, Alberta, owned and operated by Avenue Living, part of an initiative to seek more varied tenants. The publicly funded personal and healthcare services centre is a home base for nurses to deploy from, and also offers a medical clinic.
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In light of the very unfortunate and heartbreaking events that have recently occurred in Brooks, Alberta, Avenue Living is taking additional precautionary safety measures in all of its suites, especially in Brooks.
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Today we learnt some additional details about the Government’s plan to further support Canadians, specifically small businesses. More details on the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA) were announced today and we wanted to make you aware of.
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Avenue Living Asset Management is leveraging its existing property management platform through Avenue Living Communities to launch a new portfolio: Mini Mall Storage Properties. Established against a backdrop of market disruption, due to the global pandemic, the portfolio has already performed well.
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We are pleased to provide an update with regards to tenant rental obligations. As a reminder, our commitment at Avenue Living is and has always been, to work with our tenants as best we can.
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To our valued residents, we want to assure you that we are here to support you as best we can. While we understand that many businesses have been forced to stop or modify their business operations, we continue to maintain, operate and support our properties.
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As an example of our ongoing commitment to our core value of “Duty of Care,” Avenue Living Communities has continued our dedication by providing support and help to our valued residents, as we face the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) crisis together. To combat these tough times, we launched two support lines for residents in mid-March.
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Despite the challenges caused by the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), Calgary-based Avenue Living Communities has been strategic in its navigation of these turbulent times. “We took a very proactive approach to ensure that we looked after our employees who are essential workers, and that we looked after our residents who are also essential workers.”
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The enormous numbers of Canadians who need financial assistance underlines the need for additional support, to ensure continued housing and health protections. The new Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) will provide successful applicants with $2,000 a month, for four months. However, not everyone is eligible.
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One of the most-asked questions that people are wondering during the pandemic is how do we protect ourselves from a public health standpoint?What should I do? What shouldn’t I do? We’ve rounded up advice from several health service organizations.
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Effective today, Avenue Living Communities will raise the wages of all in field, customer-facing employees by $2.00 per hour, indefinitely. The wage increase applies to hundreds of employees throughout Avenue Living’s entire portfolio of 19 centres throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
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The outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has caused financial challenges for many. In direct response, the Federal Government is spending about $24 billion with its Canada Emergency Response Benefit program to help people in hardship.
“The hard truth is, people are out of work because of this crisis and worried about what comes next. So, I want you to know that we’ll be there to help you. Our Government is doing everything we can to be there for you,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told CBC News.
If you have lost income because of COVID-19, the CERB will provide you with temporary income support, said the Federal Government in a News Release dated April 1, 2020. The CERB will provide you with $500 a week ($2,000/month) for up to 16 weeks.
CERB is there to help and the Government says the goal is to get payments in the hands of people within 10 days of receiving an application. To that end, the Government is expected to launch its online application portal on the Federal Government website on April 6th.
Those with direct deposit account set-ups with the CRA could receive payments in a matter of a few days after applying. Click here for information on how to start your application process.
For those without direct deposit account set-ups, the Government of Canada has released this helpful video in order to explain in detail, the process of “How to Register for My Account”.
According to the Government, the benefit will be available to workers:
“The income of at least $5,000 may be from any or a combination of the following sources: employment; self-employment; maternity and parental benefits under the Employment Insurance program. The Benefit is only available to individuals who stopped work as a result of reasons related to COVID-19. If you are looking for a job but haven’t stopped working because of COVID-19, you are not eligible for the Benefit,” according to the Federal Government.
Avenue Living recognizes this is a difficult time for everyone. COVID-19 has impacted the daily lives of every individual in some way. We are all in this together and our hope in providing you, our residents, with this information is to inform you of the latest updates from the Government, so that we can bring you ideas, advice, hints to get ahead of the application process, as well as support in whatever way we can.
We believe everyone’s physical, mental and emotional health is of utmost importance, and especially at a challenging time like this.
From a financial support point of view, the number of programs available, particularly with the Federal Government, cover a wide area for both individuals and businesses.
The Federal Government says it is taking “immediate, significant and decisive action” to help Canadians facing hardships as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Federal Government has a comprehensive outline of Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan on its website, but the below are some highlights of the information covered.
For individuals, it has information on the following:
If you are a business owner, the website has information in the following areas:
There are many resources out there to help right now in these turbulent times, and Government aid is evolving as time progresses. As part of our Duty of Care, we will keep you posted on new programs as they are announced.
With many non-essential businesses closing their physical doors to the public over the past few weeks in accordance with provincial government requests, some are staying open, online – and are rethinking how they deliver their services.
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Avenue Living Communities is making it more convenient for residents to pay their rent. The Calgary-based company has introduced both weekly and semi-monthly payment options for residents who may need to better budget their finances during the challenges brought on by the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, most businesses have had to close their doors. Half of the country ‘s small businesses have already seen a big drop in sales and a recent report done by The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) says small firms will be pushed to the limit if the crisis continues to grow.
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Avenue Living Communities has launched the Prairie Relief Team to respond to the needs of residents across its Western Canadian portfolio in a timely fashion, amid the growing concerns of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Avenue Living has ensured no renewals would face rent increases and has frozen all rent pricing for June renewals. Additionally, we have started the process of contacting residents with renewals effective April 1st, 2020 and May 1st, 2020 to notify them that any previously agreed to increases will be reduced down to prior rents.
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It’s ‘business as usual’ when it comes to maintenance and repairs of our 400+ buildings across Western Canada. Avenue Living is proud to house thousands of essential workers throughout the Prairie provinces and is diligently working with residents during this crisis, to tend to any issues they may have with regards to their suites.
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